On 16/01/2011 20:38, Jean Nathan wrote:
Queenie has just been shown actually making lace. The actress seemed
to know what she's doing, assuming it was her hands. She was even
putting pins in after a few stitches. The lace coming off the pillow
was a Bucks Point edging about an inch wide. She described to Ruby
Pratt how they all used to sit together in one cottage making lace,
which they wrapped in blue paper and took to a fair once a year to sell.
Then she showed Ruby how to do it by having Ruby sit in front of her
(almost on her lap) with the pillow on Ruby's lap and guiding Ruby's
hands. She showed her how to do "whole stitch".
The most exposure lacemaking has had in a long while. The section in
"Edwardian Farm" a few weeks ago was very short and didn't show much
of the process, although Pat Perryman gave a bit of the history of
earning a living making bobbin lace in Devon.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
Although I'm not a very experienced lace maker I don't think that those
were the actresses hands. When the hands were shown they moved quite
fast, but when the actress was shown she wasjust rolling the bobbins
about and putting pins in. She put two pins in at what seemed like
quite random places. The contrast between the two views of Queenie were
too different, I felt, to be the same person. I'm quite happy to be
proved wrong however. It was lovely, tho', to see lacemaking take such
a prominent place in a popular tv programme.
Lesley
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